UnDelete files after big mistake!!!

[LotusAstra]

DDDUUUUHHHH, i've just deleted ALL my Photos from my HDD acidently DDDUUUHHHH $#$!#@!$*... my mistake $#$!#@!

they are on a separate partition and the PC hasnt been restarted or wrote to since...

Can some1 help me to UnDelete these files? how do i do it in a garenteed way?

Thx in advance for your help, Regards

------------------
Just my opinions from past experience...and guessing. Post back to let others know if our ideas worked!
With a good backup program u can UNDO (almost) all your mistakes & bad installs etc in Windows!

[moke]

See;
http://www.powerload.fsnet.co.uk/fat32/fat11.htm
http://www.datadepo.com/repo2000.htm


------------------
"Tell me and I forget. Show me
and I remember. Involve me and I learn."

My help page...

http://rvi.net/~moke/MokeHlp/MAIN.htm

[Limerick]

Hi LotusAstra,

Sorry to hear of your misfortune. If you haven't already recovered the files via the links that moke gave you, I have used the powerful undelete tool that Norton Utilities comes with. You would not want to install NU into Windows, of course, as you don't want to risk overwriting anything. But Undelete runs from DOS (from the Emergency diskette of NU), and has been of great help to me a couple of times in the past.

Happy computing!

Limerick

[LotusAstra]

thx guys, i'm gunna give lost and found a go, it seems to b quite highly rated...

couldn't try it last night as it was getting too late... just gotta format the target drive then its ready to roll, i'm just going to let it recover all data from the drive and see what it finds rather than picking and chosing.

fingers crossed... regards

------------------
Just my opinions from past experience...and guessing. Post back to let others know if our ideas worked!
With a good backup program u can UNDO (almost) all your mistakes & bad installs etc in Windows!

[LotusAstra]

luckly i backed up my documents/photos (inc. my new found vDr tips) 11 days ago, so i've only lost recent stuff... mainly stuff i've copied and pasted from this forum!

i let lost and found do its thing but it was rather technical and took a long time to scrool through the complicated list, and also my destination drive is smaller than the source...

so i had to manually select stuff, but there were several copies of the same thing and stuff, making the job quite hard.

anyway... what it did recover was completly useless, think i'm gunna have to cut my losses and do my partition and formating and forget about it.

also i dont wanna spend money to recover these files/knowlege as the newer ones can always be replaced in time anyway

i am looking for a freeware program that will ONLY find the deleted files??? as with the rest of the files it makes it technical as the deleted folder has the same name as another on my drive... b'cuz i was in the process of backing-up them up when i deleted the wrong 1!!!

oh well, these things happen, even when u r trying to back it up! opps!

EDIT: ahh-ha, problem solved, ALL files recovered! Sweet! thanx guys for the help, most appreciated!

Regards

[This message has been edited by LotusAstra (edited 10-05-2001).]